Funnyh druggie. When I said that Guyana had good eco/adventure POTENTIAL, you said that tourists wouldnt want all the mud and bush that Guyana offers.
So when did you decide that Guyana did have something to offer those who arent Guyanese?
Where did I mention eco tourism? I still believe that it is a very specialized product and will not attract the mainstream.
Druggie we had lengthy discussions about eco/adventure tourism. I stated that if Guyana developed the industry and promoted it we could attract maybe 50k eco/adventure tourists.
You laughed and said that the only people who would visist Guyana will be Guyanese and their off spring because all Guyana has is mud, bush, mosquitos and AFC/PNC bandits.
So have you now revised your opinion that Guyana does have the potential to attract 50k eco/adventure tourists (right now it attracts less than 1,000), if a proper tourist friendly product is developed, packaged and promoted.
I mean for the first time in a long time we have an airline which can get one from the UK (where most of these people are likely to come from as they feel an affinity for former British colonies) with few problems. Compliments of the taxpayers of T&T. Unlike before when it meant changing airlines with all the problems involved. And to their credit Caribbean Airlines has many articles about Guyana in their inflight magazine.
And when we consider that a target 50k is what Guyana should aim for, we are not talking about a huge industry as Barbados attracts 10X those numbers. Indeed Suriname probably attracts about as many eco/adventure tourists now.
50k is minuscule compared to the arrivals in the Islands for the beach worshiping crowd. I do not discourage eco tourism however it is not high profit and is expensive for the tourists due to high cost of transportation to the eco spots deep in the interior.